A Time and a Place for Suffering: Picturing the Vie de Saint Denis in Paris

Various striking similarities between art from geographically distant locations tempted art historians to analyse and compare specific examples of regional artistic solutions. Until recently most scholars placed their efforts on identifying influences stimulating creation of visually similar art in different locations. Presently the term influence itself was subject to revision, followed by the rejection of its implicit straightforward direction of any artistic connection, and instead arguably more useful term translation had been introduced